NDA Attack Nigeria has managed to increase its daily crude oil production to 1.9 million barrels , according to a tweet from the Petroleum Ministry. That’s still short of the country’s 2.2-million-bpd output before the militant attacks on oil infrastructure in the Niger Delta began a couple of years ago, but it is substantially better than the 1.3 million bpd Nigeria produced in the spring of 2016. But the 1.9 million barrels per day level may be unsustainable in the inhospitable environment of the Niger Delta, with a fresh wave of attacks announced on Tuesday at the hands of the most active militant group in the area, the Niger Delta Avengers, or NDA. Although the federal government of Nigeria has been in negotiations with the NDA to find ways to appease its members and restore oil production to more lucrative levels, the talks have had mixed results did not […]